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Author:
Judith James
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Judith is the editor-in-chief of TRACTION and a film, stage and television producer who is in a film partnership with Richard Dreyfuss at Dreyfuss/James Productions and a theater partnership with Camille Cosby.
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Judith James is a film, stage and television producer who is in a film partnership with Richard Dreyfuss at Dreyfuss/James Productions.
Originally a New York theatrical producer of 11 award winning plays, her first television production was the Emmy winning "IN HER OWN WORDS" for KCET and American Playhouse and the Mark Taper Forum .
Her film credits include an executive producer of QUIZ SHOW, a producer of MR. HOLLAND?S OPUS, producer of TRIGGER HAPPY starring Dreyfuss, Jeff Goldblum, Gabriel Byrne and Ellen Barkin, and movies for HBO, TNT, ABC and CBS. In addition she has served as consulting producer on Mr. Dreyfuss? films.
In a theatrical partnership with Camille Cosby, Judith also produced the Broadway play of HAVING OUR SAY; The Delany Sisters? First 100 Years by Emily Mann, subsequent tours and the movie version, directed by Lynne Littman, for CBS, starring Ruby Dee and Diahann Carroll. HAVING OUR SAY received the coveted Peabody Award for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism.
In January 2006, she wrapped principal photography on the thriller, THE FOREST, which she produced in India in the foothills of the Himalayas. It is by writer/director Ashvin Kumar, an Academy Award nominee for a short film last year.
She is presently developing a Broadway musical on Pearl Bailey RAW PEARL with Bill and Camille Cosby and, with Viva Productions, readying the independent film, DAYS OF FEAR to star Woody Harrelson to shoot in South Africa.
In January 2005, Ms. James was instrumental in securing and constructing for WOMEN IN FILM an alliance with General Motors under which GM has supported a myriad of WIF programs and events for 3 years ending 2007.
She is the editor-in-chief of TRACTION.
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Issue #4
Traction...as in: we loose it as often as we get it. Maybe we give it up; maybe we're too busy. There has to be a better explanation than that MEN take it away from us...for DW Griffith to be famous and Lois Webber not.
Whatever it is (what do you think?), we must say things out loud so that we aren't being described by people content with their own version of us. Sex and the City surprised us because the characters were talking like us. Sex and the City surprised the guys because it didn't occur to them that we talked like that.
And we do. Constance Penley, Professor of Film & Media Studies and Co-Director of the Center for Film, Television and New Media at UC Santa Barbara, who teaches a class called porn 101, talks with four unapologetic, bold, empowered women in Erotica (is that the female version of porn?), women 'we' need to own. The panel she moderated at the October WIFLA Forum - presented here for your reading pleasure - is the epitome of bold...and a terrific time was had by all.
This "mid-december" issue also has a new piece in The Virtual Mentor by Georgia Jeffries, multi-awarded showrunner , screen and television writer, on being both humble and audacious as a writer. And more from Tarice Gray wrestling with the second degree of difficulty in story-telling for women - not only being a woman with good stories to tell, but being a black woman. And to keep the information flowing from all corners, there's an article about heroines, sex bombs and ordinary women as depicted by polish women directors!
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